CVE-2026-73740CWE-269privilege-escalation

CVE-2026-73740

Medium · published September 2, 2026

CVSS v3.1
4.4
EPSS
0%
Percentile
2.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A local privilege escalation vulnerability in HPE Networking Fabric Composer could allow an authenticated privileged user on the underlying host to elevate their user privileges to those of a higher role. A successful exploit allows the attacker to change the state of certain settings of the affected system.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.4 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00137 · 2.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management
Published
2026-09-02T00:17Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
arubanetworks/fabric_composer≤ 7.3.3—
References (1)
https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=hpesbnw05133en_us&docLocale=en_US · [email protected]
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 03 SEP 03:32Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 01 SEP 19:47Z
    Local Privilege Escalation in HPE Networking Fabric Composer
    cvelistv5